The Audubon Societies 



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Special Topics. — Tools of the bird; protective coloring; immature birds; 

 kinds of flight; nest-architecture; bird-gestures and dances; how and where 

 birds sleep; game-laws; bird-reservations; commercial uses of birds. 



Reading and drawing exercises and color-work for lower grades are excel- 

 lent. Bird-distribution is easily correlated with geography; making nesting- 

 boxes and lunch-counters with manual training field descriptions with English. 



OUTDOOR WORK 



January. Winter Visitants. Bird lunch-counters. Where birds find food. 



February. Feeding Winter Residents. Finding tracks of birds and animals. 



March. Early Spring Transients. Learning weather-signs and migration 

 movements. 



April. Transients. "Waves" of migration. Spring food-supply. 



May. Late Transients. Early nesting species. Song. Where birds bathe 

 and drink. 



June. Summer Residents. Choice of nesting-site. Nest-building. Putting 

 up birds' drinking-fountains. 



July. Late nesting species. Second broods. Food of young birds. 



August. Summer Visitants. Decline of song. Change of food. Fruit-foods. 



September. Early Fall Transients. Collection of weed seed and insects. 



October. Fall Transients. Irregular Migrants. Fall food-supply. 



November. Late Fall Transients. Putting up nesting-boxes. 



December. Permanent Residents. Christmas-day census. Putting up birds' 

 Christmas-tree. 



Group 

 Age by 

 years 



Jan. . . 

 Feb... 

 March 



April.. 



May. . 



June . 



July . . 



August 



Sept. . 

 Oct. . . 



Nov. . 



Dec. . . 



First 



5-7 



English Sparrow 

 Domestic Pigeon 

 Crow 



Robin 



Song Sparrow 



Baltimore Oriole 



( Catbird 



-N Brown Thrasher 

 (Mockingbird 



Hummingbird 



I Bronze Crackle 

 j Purple Crackle 

 Flicker 



Blue Jay 



Chickadee 



Second 

 7-9 



Downy Wood- 

 pecker 



American Owl 

 Bluebird 



Chipping Sparrow 



Meadowlark 



fBarn Swallow 



Eave Swallow 



[Bank Swallow 



( Yellow Warbler 

 I Redstart 



I Scarlet Tanager 

 I Summer Tanager 



Cedar Waxwing 



American Gold- 

 finch 

 Junco 



Third 

 9-1 1 



( Ruffed Grouse 

 [ Bob-white 

 Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet 



Phoebe 



Red-winged 

 Blackbird 



' Wood Thrush 

 ; Wilson Thrush 

 f Rose-breasted 



Grosbeak 

 [Purple Martin 



Black and White 

 Cieeper 



Chimney Swift 



Kingfisher 



Brown Creeper 

 American Shrike 



White-breasted 1 American Hawk 

 Nuthatch | 



Fourth 

 11-12 



Snow Bunting 

 Redpoll 



Heimit Thrush 



Towhee 

 White-throated 

 Sparrow 



House Wren 



j Bobolink 

 1 Cowbird 



f Kingbird 



( Wood Pewee 



jNighthawk 

 I Whip-poor-will 

 f Purple Finch 

 1 Cardinal 

 ( Screeeh Owl 

 1 American Hawk 



American Cross- 

 bill 



Tree Sparrow 



Fifth 

 13-16 



Herring Gull 



American Duck 



) Canada Goose 

 I American Grebe 



Myrtle Warbler 



Ovenbird 



f Red-eyed Vireo 

 < Yellow-throated 



(_ Vireo 



( American Heron 

 <. Spotted Sand- 



t piper 



findigo Bunting 



(American Cuckoo 

 j Woodcock 

 1 Starling 



Vesper Sparrow 



Horned Lark 



f Pine Grosbeak 

 1 EveningGrosbeak 



Note. — Brackets indicate that a choice of species may be made according to local- 

 ity. It is suggested that pictures of common and closely related species be shown and 

 described with reference to distribution and habits. 



